#3705

what about when Colchester and Fulham play each other?!

#3706

200m closer to Parkhead than Firhill. Very near miss, could’ve been in the Kingsley gang.

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#3707

In the 2020/21 season i’ll support the home team in both games

#3708

what if it’s the play-off final at Wembley?

#3709

(last time this happened I was about 6. At the time I felt more of an affinity to Colchester, now its probably more towards Fulham)

#3710

I’d be delighted that one team was going to get promoted and have a lovely day out

#3711

Think I’d probably want Fulham to win

#3712

well there’s your answer

#3713

I think my answer is still that I support Fulham and Colchester United, tbh.

#3714

don’t make me tap the sign

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#3715

#3716

524km from the hospital I was born in to Stamford Bridge.

#3717

I was going to do a 2nd poll with the distance from where your dad/mum was born to the club you support but couldn’t be CBA’d

would probably be more interesting to have some kind of equation on the differential of these distances - we might discover an actual formula - but no

of course, local availability of interesting teams should be factored in as these things tend to cluster. Plenty to pick if you’re born in London/North West/North East, not so much if you’re born in Penzance

#3718

Still 500m me Mum & Dad were born in the same hospital as me.

#3719

523.5km for my Dad as my grandparents’ house isn’t too far from the hospital in Clonmel.

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#3720

don’t worry lads, Bugduv is working on the formula as we speak

#3721

Two miles from Maine Road. Also two miles from Old Trafford. Parents supported United. Grandparents supported City. Lots of people of their generation genuinely followed both clubs then, though, as going away wasn’t that common (though i imagine most favoured one or the other). So far as i know that only really stopped when there was a period of both teams being decent in the late 60s.

Feel quite conflicted about this argument as in theory i agree with it but then on the other hand i know some people who live abroad and travel over for literally every game. Know one City supporter who lives in Northern Ireland and has been a matchgoing supporter since the seventies. No family link, just liked the team and has been through the ups and downs for forty years. When i used to go regularly i’d skip games just because it was raining or i had a hangover and the ground was about an £8 taxi ride away and the tickets often freebies. Who’s the proper supporter there, me because of where my parents lived when i was born or this fella who spends half his life at airports?

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#3722

^This

There’s a bloke from Malta who has been going to United week in week out for like 40 years or something nuts. There’s no way that anyone can consider him lesser in any sort of daft fan hierarchy as a result of the fact he’s not local.

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#3723

wouldn’t worry about it, the guy just probably hates his wife & kids and wants an excuse to have weekends away

seriously though, yeah it’s complicated. As I think I’ve mentioned before my mum is a staunch Utd fan and old Stretford ender - typical of the Manc Irish Catholics that were born in Ireland and came to England & settled in Manchester after the war. Whereas the generation born in Manchester (and environs) ie all my cousins are City fans except in those few cases where their Irish relatives took them to games when they were bairns.

For my sins my dad grew up in Liverpool so despite being born in Bury me & my brother were indoctrinated into never walking alone even though my mum was actually much more of a football fan than he was

so, there’s no real honour in proximity, it’s just interesting to see how these influences radiate and comingle with other aspects - like I said there’s often lots of choice in certain areas of the country but then even within those areas it can be highly territorial so choice is taken away. My 5yo loves watching the football with me but if she were ever to pick a Stockholm team to support there’s no way any of the local kids would let her be AIK or Djurgården, she’d practically be forced to be Hammarby (even though Hammarby and Djurgården have a groundshare)

#3724

1,025 miles to Stamford bridge from where my dad was born. But it was his local team when he moved to the UK, which is why I now support them.

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